Commonwealth v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Ellis (1995), Commonwealth v. Rodriguez (1991)
52 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · Jones v. United States · United States v. Ventresca
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Staleness’ when raised must not be determined by rigorous exactitude, but rather by the experience of reasonable men, cognizant that events in the real world, and more specifically criminal events, have a life of their own....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is speculation as well. To use this assumption as a basis for rewriting the affidavit of probable cause is also pernicious, as it excuses the magisterial district judge's failure to perform his or her important function in the review process leading to the issuance of a search warrant. This Court has explained that the standard for evaluating whether probable cause exists for the issuance of a search warrant is the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.